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6 hours ago, OriolesMagic83 said:

I am personally throwing my support behind Can of Corn.

Corn is not who said no one qualified would take the one of thirty jobs worldwide available. It was someone who was simply trolling an Orioles site. 

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1 minute ago, El_Duderino said:

Getting a weird feeling that they hire no one and go with some weird Graham/Anderson combo. ?

That'd be terrible. It's hard to rate anyone being considered because I don't know enough about any of them. I just wish the boys would make a pick.  Quit riding on that turtle and your pick doggone it. 

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39 minutes ago, El_Duderino said:

Getting a weird feeling that they hire no one and go with some weird Graham/Anderson combo. ?

Not going to happen but yes it would suck.

They have completed the 1st round of interviews according to some media outlets.

Its easy to judge the Orioles negatively  before this is announced. Personally I will withhold judgement until I see it play out

 

@weams is it Troll-Rick or Web-Troll?

 

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* Peter Woodfork, Major League Baseball’s senior vice president of baseball operations, is a definite candidate to join the Orioles’ front office. I heard his name mentioned this week as having interviewed, confirming The Athletic’s report.

It's interesting that the Angelos brothers are interviewing from the MLB front office. Perhaps as a way to mend fences with them?

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On 11/8/2018 at 10:50 AM, wildcard said:

I will take a shot at rating the candidates that we have heard of to this point

Factors I used to rate 

I. Successful involvement in managing Scouting, Player Development or Analytics

II. Involvement in managing a rebuild

!!!. Demonstrated ability to manage a mid market team to a World Series winner

1.  Mike Elias -  Currently AGM for Player Acquisition  for the Astros.   Elias have been through a successful rebuild which should be a big plus.   Elias has been instrumental in assembling the Astros roster and building its top-ranked farm system since he joined the club in January of 2012.  

As the Astros scouting director, Elias served as one of the major contributors to the accumulation of young talent that has occurred during General Manager Jeff Luhnow tenure. His involvement and leadership in the organizationâl amateur draft efforts helped to rapidly elevate the Astro's talent pipeline to one of the best in baseball and furnished key pieces that contributed to the organization's 2017 World Series Championship.

In 2012, as Special Assistant to the GM for Scouting, Mike was a driving force behind the decision to select Carlos Correa with the first overall pick, and helped assemble a draft class that has produced nine Major League players thus far. Under Elias's direction, Astros drafts from 2013-2017 have already graduated an additional thirteen MLB players, including Alex Bregman, and yielded some of the current top prospects in baseball. Since 2012 the Astros have drafted more MLB players than any other team.  

He is a gradate from Yale.  He has ties to the area having gro!wn up in Alexandria Va. He gradated from Thomas Jefferson High School.

2. Scott Sharp - currently AGM of the Royals  Scott Sharp is in his 12th season in the Royals' front office and first as the Vice President/Assistant General Manager. He was named to his current role on January 7, 2018. He has previously served as the Director of Player Development during the 2013 and 2014 seasons. He joined the organization on September 28, 2006 as Assistant Director of Player Development and was promoted to Director of Minor League Operations on August 1, 2008.

Though Sharp does not have a scouting or drafting background he has been involved in player development for most of his career.  He oversaw the development of many for the  Royals home grown players that won the 2014 World Series including  Hosmer, Moustakas. Perez, Duffy, Ventura, and Herrera.  He is a graduate of George Washington University and grew up in Sykesville Md

3. Ben Cherington.   As  former GM  he brings many positives and few negatives to the GM position.   Currently  the VP of Baseball Ops for the Blue Jays.  Cherington was named Major League Baseball Executive of the Year for 2013 by The Sporting News for his part in leading the team to the World Series.  Cherington served Boston as an area scout, baseball operations assistant, coordinator of international scouting, and assistant director (and then director) of player development from 1999–2005. Cherington became vice president, player personnel, through January 2009, then senior vice president and assistant GM from 2009 through his promotion to general manager after the 2011 season.  Res Sox GM from 2012-through 2015.  Cherington has involved with the development of  young players Xander Bogaerts, Mookie Betts, Jackie Bradley Jr. Brock Holt, Eduardo Rodríguez, Blake Swihart, Travis Shaw, Henry Owens, Christian Vázquez.   

This all reads like the guy that the O's would want to hire as their GM for the rebuild except of the unfortunate end to Cherington time in Boston.  He signed to large contracts Ramirez, Sandoval and Castillo  which cost the Red Sox greatly in 2014-2018.  After wining the World Series in two 2013 his team finished last in 2014 and 2015 which led to his firing.  That is why he is listed as the 3rd choice here.

Cherington  matriculated at Amherst College and has a master's degree in Sport Management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

4. Ned Colletti -  One of the most successful GM in baseball history.    He is known as a old school GM for his reliance in the past on traditional scouting over analytics.  Colletti is an American sports executive and Emmy Award-winning baseball analyst. He is currently an analyst for the Los Angeles Dodgers studio show on Spectrum SportsNet LA. He was general manager of the Dodgers from 2006 through 2014. Before moving to the Dodgers, he was assistant general manager of the San Francisco Giants. During his tenure, the Giants had an 813–644 overall record (.558), winning an average of 90.3 games per season. He was hired by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2005.[4] During his tenure with the Dodgers (2005-2014), Colletti had the highest winning percentage of any general manager in the National League.  During Colletti time as GM with the Dodgers he won the NL West 4 times and made the playoff 5 times.  He did not win a World Series.

5. Tyrone Brooks -   is in the Office of the Commissioner at Major League Baseball as the Senior Director of the Front Office and Field Staff Diversity Pipeline Program in February of 2016.   6 years with the Pirates for Dec 2009 to Jan 2016.   Was Director of Baseball Operations and Director of Player Personnel.

It has been reported that the Angelos brothers are still interviewing candidates and may have already interviewed candidates that are not included here.   There are several AGM that I believe are qualified including Ray's Bloom, Brewer's Anorld, Diamondback Sawdaye. Cubs McLeod and I am sure there are others.

That is how I rate the candidates.  How do you rate them?

 

My #1 Candidate.   Hope it happens.

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